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Show 30 THE GOLDEN HOUR. bled with money, if he could get things for a dollar a year spent 1. n CO\V ln ' dc s ?. :in the above e timate, which would make the con~ tending parties in this country substantially equal in numerical force, it has not been forgotten that it is urged that a large portion of the Southern people aro Unionists. Although the evidences of this sce1n to me slight, it would be, if true, of less bearing upon the question than might be at first snppo cd. For, no Inatter what a man's sympathies may be, he cannot labor in any section but he adds to the wealth of that section, and to its military stores and strength. v. TilE TWO EDGES QF THE S 'V 0 RD. TrrE sword has two edges ; one is turned toward the user, and never fails to give him a wound for each inflicted on his antagonist. What does the settlement of this conquest by mere military force imply to the ~Free States? They say that our army is not thorough in its morale ; which means, that the young 1nan who was grad uatcd la t year is yet too full of culture and civilization to butcher his fellowbeings after the most approved Texan style. He bas THE T\VO EDGES OF THE SWORD. 31 not forgotten that hit> mother and his pa 'tor taught him to ovcrcon1c evil wiLh good. The gcntlcn1an is still, to a 1nclancholy cxLcnt, predominant in hi1n, the hor. ·c and alligator ·adly dcficicn t. 'rhis n1oralization of the soldier is the dclnoralization of the 1nan. War is the apotheosis of brutality. Looking into the past, we sec it as a clin1ax of horrors when a harlot i borne through the streets of Paris, proclain1cd the Goddc s of Rca. on; but to-day, should the war end, the 1nasscs \vould seize the man whose band reeked 1nost with lnunan blood, and bear him on their shoulders to the 'Vhitc Ilouse. Should we continue this war long enough, we shall bccon1c the Vandals and Ilcssians the South says we are. Every great achicve1nent of civilization is in the way of war, and n1ust be abridged. K"nig of Germany has given it as his opinion, that di tinguished generalship is inconsistent with the existence of the telegraph: in our war, both sides arc cutting down all telegraph-lines which they cannot hold under military censorship. The frecdo1n of the press has been proved hnpossible in time of war. The trial by jury- the coat of mail which Character has worn for ages- is torn away. The Ilabeas-Corpus writ-" the high-water mark of English liberty"- is of arbitrary application. A short tin1e ago we were all uttering our horror of the prize-ring, with its brutalities. Now George |
